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Project ID: 99-S-01

Year: 2000

Date Started: 04/26/2000

Date Completed: 05/12/2006

Title: A National Study of the Consequences of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments

Project Proposal Abstract: Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire behavior, (c) soils and forest floor (including relation to local hydrology), (d) wildlife, (e) entomology, (f) pathology, and (g) treatment costs and utilization economics. 2. Provide an overall research design that (a) establishes and maintains the study as an integrated national network of long-term interdisciplinary research sites utilizing a common "core" design to facilitate broad applicability of results, (b) allows each site to be independent for purposes of statistical analysis and modeling, as well as being a component of the national network, and (c) provides flexibility for investigators and other participants responsible for each research site to augment--without compromising--the core design as desired to address locally-important issues and to exploit expertise and other resources available to local sites. 3. Within the first five years of the study, establish cooperative relationships, identify and establish network research sites, collect baseline data, implement initial treatments, document treatment costs and short-term responses to treatments, report results, and designate FF5 research sites as demonstration areas for technology transfer to professionals and for the education of students and the public. 4. Develop and maintain an integrated and spatially-referenced database format to be used to archive data for all network sites, facilitate the development of interdisciplinary and multi-scale models, and integrate results across the network. 5. Identify and field test, in concert with resource managers and users, a suite of response variables or measures that are: (a) sensitive to the fire and fire surrogate treatments, and (b) both technically and logistically feasible for widespread use in management contexts. This suite of measures will form much of the basis for management monitoring of operational treatments designed to restore ecological integrity and reduce wildfire hazard. 6. Over the life of the study, quantify the ecological and economic consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments in a number of forest. types and conditions in the United States. Develop and validate models of ecosystem structure and function, and successively refine recommendations for ecosystem management.

Principal Investigator: James D. McIver

Agency/Organization: Oregon State University

Branch or Dept: Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	James K. Agee	University of Washington	School of Forest Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Jim Baldwin	Forest Service	PSW-Pacific Southwest Research Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Jamie Barbour	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Portland
Co-Principal Investigator	Frank Beall	University of California-Richmond	Forest Products Lab
Co-Principal Investigator	Ralph Boerner	Ohio State University	Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
Co-Principal Investigator	Timothy J. Brown	Desert Research Institute	Division of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS)
Co-Principal Investigator	Matt D. Busse	Forest Service	PSW-Silviculture Lab-Redding
Co-Principal Investigator	Carleton B. Edminster	Forest Service	RMRS-Southwest Forest Science Complex
Co-Principal Investigator	Carl Fiedler	University of Montana	College of Forestry & Conservation
Co-Principal Investigator	Sally M. Haase	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael Harrington	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Ronald W. Hodgson	Forest Service	Tahoe National Forest
Co-Principal Investigator	Jon E. Keeley	USGS-Geological Survey	WERC-Sequoia & Kings Canyon Field Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Mike Landram	Forest Service	Region 5-Pacific Southwest Region
Co-Principal Investigator	Bill Laudenslayer	Forest Service	PSW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fresno
Co-Principal Investigator	John F. Lehmkuhl	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Wenatchee
Co-Principal Investigator	William Otrosina	Forest Service	SRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Athens GA
Co-Principal Investigator	Roger D. Ottmar	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Martin W. Ritchie	Forest Service	PSW-Silviculture Lab-Redding
Co-Principal Investigator	Kevin C. Ryan	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Patrick Shea	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Co-Principal Investigator	Carl N. Skinner	Forest Service	PSW-Silviculture Lab-Redding
Co-Principal Investigator	Scott L. Stephens	University of California-Berkeley	Department of Environmental Sciences-Policy & Management
Co-Principal Investigator	Nathan Stephenson	USGS-Geological Survey	WERC-Sequoia & Kings Canyon Field Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Elaine K. Sutherland	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert E. Vihnanek	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Dale D. Wade	Forest Service	SRS-Southern Forest Experimental Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Thomas A. Waldrop	Forest Service	SRS-Department of Forest Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Phil Weatherspoon	Forest Service	PSW-Silviculture Lab-Redding
Co-Principal Investigator	Daniel A. Yaussy	Forest Service	NRS-Forest Health-Sustaining Forests
Co-Principal Investigator	Steve W. Zack	Wildlife Conservation Society	North America Program
Federal Cooperator	Andrew Youngblood	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry & Range Sciences Lab-LaGrande

Project Locations

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	9831	Refereed Publication	The Effects of Forest Fuel-Reduction Treatments in the United States
	6253	Refereed Publication	The Effects of Early Season and Late Season Prescribed Fires on Small Mammals in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest

Supporting Documents

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